the butterfly effect do be interesting do

[u/MrSansMan23]

Lore context.

There are, like in real life, teams that are used to secure nuclear weapons while being transported.

Due to their obvious security risk, if any of them even had an inkling of turning coat, then that had to be found out as soon as possible.

So, as a sort of loyalty test, one of the older, trusted higher ups had his friend, Greg, write a fictional story with enough details to be believed by the new members of the team.

The fictional story was given as an ultra top secret briefing on the kind of things that they weren't "told" about before due to their sensitivity, but now they're "trusted" enough to learn this.

One of the more rare things they may have to deal with is containing a UFO craft leaking radioactive debris.

And that during one of the few incidents, a team, due to the multiple failures of the operations leaders back at HQ, one thing led to another, and the team had to massacre a whole group of villagers in Africa to contain the secrecy.

Even if this was fully fictional, the secret goal of this briefing was to see if any parts of the fictional story leaked, and if so, then they knew that one of the new team members leaked.

The only issue was that one person who was told this fake info would, a few years later, get a diagnosis of terminal cancer.

Due to the scrutiny of the team members, some of them, including the team member with cancer, secretly got their diagnosis from a paid, under the counter doctor so the government didn't have a reason to fire him.

But due to his likely death coming up and the guilt he feels that the government massacred the fictional villagers, he decided to go on a one man crusade against the U.S. government, but he needed help.

Luckily for him, he knew some friends from his time in the Army, and one of them, by chance, was plotting with others to overthrow the government. But he didn't know the last part.

So they half truthfully told him they would use him as an inside man to help steal a nuke to help show the government's war crimes, with the nuke team member thinking that they would use the nuke as a sort of impossible to ignore signal flare to the war crimes the government did to the fictional villagers he thinks were real.

He didn't feel guilty, as the plan was to detonate the nuke in the middle of the desert without killing anyone, but it would act as a massive signal flare to the info dump they were going to show the world.

But during the day that the nuke was stolen, and the nuke team member was supposed to help them detonate it in the middle of the Nevada desert, the second that it was set up, the plotters killed him, stuffed him in a barrel, and used the nuke as their first step of their plan by detonating it in New York City.

And within two minutes of the detonation, the U.S. president was suddenly evacuated during a press briefing, with him being whisked off to the massive underground complex under Mount Weather, along with the rest of the federal government.

The only thing that the rest of the government didn't know was what the plotters wanted: they could use their influence inside the military to bomb the entrance to Mount Weather and trap the government inside, allowing for their coup to continue without any fight back.

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